Content Creation University
Auditing
YT-402 YouTube track Year Four YouTube Track

Long-Form Production Pipelines

Batching, pre-production systems, working with editors, sustainable weekly output.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
5h 31m
Attendance minimum
2h 46m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Ses. 1-3: Lean Thinking: Part I (MIT 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods) Seeing your channel as a process: process maps and the waste walk MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 43 min
  2. Ses. 1-3: Lean Thinking: Part II (MIT 16.660J) Value, flow, pull and cycle time: the physics of getting work out the door MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 39 min
  3. Ses. 1-6: Value Stream Mapping Basics (MIT 16.660J) Mapping your own pipeline end to end and finding where the weeks actually go MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 33 min
  4. Ses. 1-5: People: The Heart of Lean (MIT 16.660J) The human element: why a pipeline only works if the people inside it do MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 48 min
  5. Dynamic Work Design: A New Way of Working Escaping permanent crisis mode: designing work that is visible and sustainable MIT Sloan Executive Education 2 Peer institution 61 min
  6. How to Build and Manage Teams - Stanford CS183F: Startup School Bringing other people into the pipeline: hiring and managing as you scale Stanford Online 2 Peer institution 59 min
  7. Work Smarter Instead of Harder | Master Class #4 ft. Kati Morton Applying it to a channel: batching, delegation and a workload that holds YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 5 min
  8. Practicum · working creator The MKBHD Method™ For Editing High Quality Videos A working channel's entire post-production team opens its pipeline stage by stage — story, colour, animation, music, audio, sound design — showing who owns each stage and what they hand to the next person: Lecture 4's argument that a process only holds when the people inside it own it, and Lecture 6's shift from doing the work to directing it, at real headcount The Studio P Practitioner 43 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, The Studio — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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